In a way this is true – we do, in fact, reject all the newfangled political experiments like socialism, communism, fascism (and it’s American cousin Progressivism), and appeasement, because we think America got it right the first time, at least in principle.

Of course, liberals don’t have any new ideas to offer, either. They’re offering the same old failed ones, but because they never bothered to understand history but were simply spoon fed the hippy version by college profs who never insisted on academic rigor, they fail to RECOGNIZE them as old. (For more information on the Obama Presidency, See Carter, Jimmy

The counter culture is all around us; read a blog and check out myspace music. Phony corporate counter culture deserves to die to the sweet refrains of fall Out Boy

As for the supression of free speech – I find it very scarry that we can no longer have a dialouge – more frightening is the inability for people to even make up their own minds by weighing the facts.

The ironic thing is the Times and other papers, magazines and TV outlets took up the Voice’s cause of eliminating the line between straight reporting and op-ed in their stories just at the time the Voice was beginning its downward spiral. At least the Voice never presented itself as a publication that was trying to attract the entire political spectrum for its readership — for Pinch, or the folks over at Time, Newsweek,, the L.A. Times, the three major networks and CNN to decide to adapt that model when they ostensibly are trying to lure readers and/or viewers from the entire political spectrum, and to do it at a time when there are more options than ever to keep people away from your stories, is just the height of self-indulgent management. They’d rather feel good about themselves for what they write than to maintain as large a readership (and in turn ad linage) as possible to maintain their future job security.

Enter BIG GOVERNMENT, with confiscatory power. Government never met a “problem” it can’t solve, along with the ability to spend money on it.

Systemically, you can see how well this works. Visit any government housing project or VA hospital. Or, visit you local ghetto school, the one that was once new.

Also, I saw a couple of friends from the L.A. Weekly ( I used to work there)who told me that people are being let go. Needless to say they were pretty down in the dumps.